Screen.



UNITE STATES AT T QFEKQE.

HUGH JOHNSTON, GF TORONTQ ONTABIO CANADA.

SCREEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov.-6, .1917.

Application filed may 1, 1916. -Serial No. 107,165.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH JOHNSTON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of 55 Radford avenue, in the city of Toronto, county of York, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Screens, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in screens as described in the present specification and shown in the accompanyingdrawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, whereby a curtain may extend continuously throughout the several sections of the screen.

The objects of the invention are to devise a screen easy to move and readily collapsible and which may beset up with a single piece of material preferably cut specially to fit the variousparts of the screen without being separated therefore forming an individual element that can be replaced'and repaired with facility, to" furnish a screen thatis particularly applicable to screening beds in hospitals and sick rooms and generally to provide a neat, cheap, durable and serviceablescreen.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the screen as it appears when extended and with the curtain removed;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the screen extended and showingthe curtain in position thereon.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the screen in its folded position.

F ig, 1- is a detail of the curtain rod used on the main frame.

Fig. 5'is a detail of the curtain rod used on the upper end of the wings.

Fig. 6 is a detail of the'vertical curtain rod used on the outer ends of the wings.

Fig. 7 is a detail of the locking collar used to hold the lower. horizontal curtain rod in position in themain'frame.

Fig. 8 is a detail of oneof the supporting brackets for the vertical curtain rods.

knobs.

Fig. 10 is a detail of one of the rotatable collars mounted on the main frame and adapted to receive a horizontal curtain rod from the wings.

1Likenumerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings, the main fI'El111G,-Wl11(3l1 is formed of the uprights? v1 and 2, preferably tubular, the uppertubular rail 3 and the lower tubular rails e-and 5,3is

supported by the casterstands 6, the latter being in the. form of bars having; the'central sockets 7 encircling the uprights. l ands2 between the lower rails 4. and 5 and-the end rods 17 therein, said rods 17 being telescopi-z .cally arranged within said rails '12 ,andhaving the knobs 18 screw threaded. onto the ends. I

The extension rods 17 project fromthe sockets 19 extending from the sleeves on the uprights to which the upper sockets '15 are secured or form part therewith.

20 is a bracket rigidly mounted-on the rod 1 intermediate of the length thereof and projecting outwardly from each side of said rod and forming a stand for the main wings when folded one on each side of the main frame. 3

21 are rods forming horizontal curtain supports between the uprights 1 and 14;,

and the uprights 2 and 14 at the upper ends thereof, said rods having'their ends curled backwardly and formingthe circularopen- Fig. 9 .-is' a. detatil 'ofone of the pierced:

ings 22 adapted to register with the openings in the ends of said uprights and being held in position on said uprights by headed pins 23 extending through the openings 22 and entering the said uprights.

24 is a rod extending from the upright 1 to the upright 2 and having its ends offset and supported in the openings 25 in the headed pins 23, said rod forming a horizontal curtain support between said uprights and completing with the rods 21 and the extension rods 17 a series of curtain supports throughout the upper part of the several sections of the screen.

26 are curtain rods having their curved ends 27 mounted on the top ends of the uprights 14 and held thereon by the pins 23 and extending downwardly parallel with said uprights and being supported at their lower ends in slots 28 in the brackets 29 mounted on said uprights above the sockets 15.

.30 is a horizontal curtain rod connecting the uprights 1 and 2 above the sockets 11 and being supported in slots in each of said uprights.

The rod 30 is held non-rotative in said slots by means of a sliding collar 31 encircling each of the uprights 1 and 2 above said rod and having the pins 32 extending downwardly therefrom and engaging suitable openings in said rod.

33 are horizontal curtain rods extending from the uprights 1 and 2 respectively to are simply pushed into the rods 12, the

portion of curtain supported thereon folding in vertical position against the uprights 14.

Owing to the wing frames being rotatively mounted on the main frame they may be moved on the casters 16 to any desired position according to the object to be screened. 7

When it is desired to move the screen from one place to another wing frames may be folded one on each side of the main frame and raised slightly to rest on the stand 20 of said main frame and the whole device may be wheeled to the desired position on the casters 9.

It will thus be seen that an efficient form of screen is provided which may be operated with ease by one person and which may be collapsed to occupy a very small space when not in use.

\Vhat I claim is:

1. A screen comprising a curtain, a central frame and an end frame swinging from said central frame, the top rails of said frames forming removable curtain hangers and supporting said curtain at substantially an even height throughout the length of the screen.

2. A screen comprising a curtain, a central frame, end frames swinging from the uprights of said central frame, said frames having removable top rails threaded through said curtain and supporting the latter at an even height throughout the length of the screen, and extension rods from said end frames forming supports for the continuing portions of said curtain.

3. In a screen, a main frame having uprights and cross rails, wingframes, each having an upright and cross rails secured by rotative members to said uprights of the main frame, knobs secured to said uprights having rod holes, vertical curtain rods having an eye at their upper ends engaged by the knobs of said wing frames and brackets secured to wing frame uprights and receiving the lower ends of said vertical rods.

4. In a screen, a main frame having upright and cross rails, one of said cross rails being at the bottom, another slightly thereabove and another adjacent to the top, caster stands secured to said uprights between the lower rails, casters carried by said stands, wing frames, each having an upright and cross rails secured by rotative members to said uprights of the main frame, a bracket secured on one of the horizontal lower rods of said main frame and forming'a support for said wing frames when folded against said main frame and horizontal and vertical curtain supports removably secured in said main frame and said wing frames and a curtain carried by said supports.

5. In a screen, a main frame having upright and cross rails, one of said cross rails being at the bottom, another slightly thereabove and another adjacent to the top, caster stands secured to said uprights between the lower rails, casters carried by said stands, wing frames, each having an upright and cross rails secured by rotative members to said uprights of the main frame, extension rods extending from said wing frames at each end, curtain rods removably sein sockets in the knobs in the uprights of tive members encircling the uprights of 1 said main frame, a horizontal curtain rod said main frame and a curtain supported mounted in the uprights of said main frame by said rods and by said extension rods. adjacent the lower ends thereof, collars Signed at the city of Toronto, Province loosely encircling the last named uprights of Ontario, this 21st day of June, 1916.

and having pin projections therefrom en- HUGH J OHNSTON, tering slots in said lower horizontal curtain Witnesses:

rod, curtain rods mounted in slots in the W. G. HAMMOND,

uprights of said Wing frames and in rota- M. BLACKWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

